Center For Hearing and Speech

This place is phenomenal!
After failing his newborn hearing screen, our son was diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss and then aided at 2 months. We didn’t have a clue where to start on helping him develop spoken language and listening skills. The Center put us on the right track with weekly therapy sessions that also gave me good speech activities to do at home. Our first therapist was Hannah for a few sessions and then we saw Miriam until the time our son was released from the program. Miriam really took us under her wing and helped tremendously. I learned so much about his hearing loss and how to work with him. The audiology department is wonderful as well. They offer hearing tests for babies including diagnostic ABR testing. They can do everything right there including sound boith testing, making molds, etc. except for sedated testing which they refer to Texas Children’s Hospital. We’ve worked with several of the audiologists and all of them are professional and knowledgeable. Our son is now 4 years old and you can’t even tell he has hearing loss by listening to him talk. He was released from his sessions at 2 years old because he was testing at and above age appropriate listening and speech skills.
Everyone from the receptionists to the billing department have been friendly and helpful. They also have a library where you can check out all kinds of resources to help you and your little one with hearing loss.
We are grateful to everyone at the Center who helped us through the first part of our journey!

They are a great group, very very thorough in their work. They explain everything and they are outstanding with kids. Highly recommend them!

Our son goes to school here and they’ve been really fabulous. They genuinely care about the kids and aren diligently working to get them the hearing and speech skills they need. The program is very rigorous, which initially concerned us. We looked at several other programs both in Texas and out-​of-​state before deciding on sending him the MWS. Everyone on staff is always helpful and responsive.

Today The Center for Hearing and Speech had free hearing screenings. How did I find out? Unilocal Events, that’s how!!! At 2:27 I opened Unilocal events and realized I forgot all about it. I called over there and asked if it would be ok if I came on by for the screening since it was supposed to be over at 3. The kind lady on the phone said «come on»!! I grab the kid and sped down Shepherd to get there by 2:43. We only almost died twice.
We were in and out in 10 minutes. First, they performed the standard headphones with the tones test. Raise your hand when you hear a sound. But, he did not do well on that one so she put these things in his ears that sent out beeps and measured how his inner ear reacted. The boy flunked his test (first test he has ever flunked.) The Audiologist told us to go to our pediatrician and have him get on an antibiotic to make sure there is NO infection in his ears, then come back and get the full diagnostics. She asked about our insurance, which we have none, and luckily they have a sliding scale based on income. So, hopefully when all is said and done, this will not break the bank.
I really appreciated the intern who posted this event on Unilocal Events.